github.com/atsaki/terraform@v0.4.3-0.20150919165407-25bba5967654/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/kinesis_stream.html.markdown (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "aws" 3 page_title: "AWS: aws_kinesis_stream" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-aws-resource-kinesis-stream" 5 description: |- 6 Provides a AWS Kinesis Stream 7 --- 8 9 # aws\_kinesis\_stream 10 11 Provides a Kinesis Stream resource. Amazon Kinesis is a managed service that 12 scales elastically for real-time processing of streaming big data. 13 14 For more details, see the [Amazon Kinesis Documentation][1]. 15 16 ## Example Usage 17 18 ``` 19 resource "aws_kinesis_stream" "test_stream" { 20 name = "terraform-kinesis-test" 21 shard_count = 1 22 } 23 ``` 24 25 ## Argument Reference 26 27 The following arguments are supported: 28 29 * `name` - (Required) A name to identify the stream. This is unique to the 30 AWS account and region the Stream is created in. 31 * `shard_count` – (Required) The number of shards that the stream will use. 32 Amazon has guidlines for specifying the Stream size that should be referenced 33 when creating a Kinesis stream. See [Amazon Kinesis Streams][2] for more. 34 35 ## Attributes Reference 36 37 * `id` - The unique Stream id 38 * `name` - The unique Stream name (same as `id`) 39 * `shard_count` - The count of Shards for this Stream 40 * `arn` - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) specifying the Stream 41 42 43 [1]: http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/kinesis/ 44 [2]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/dev/amazon-kinesis-streams.html